Last Night's Fun : In And Out Of Time With Irish Music

Last Night's Fun is a sparkling celebration of Irish music and life that itself is a literary performance of the highest order. Carson's inspired jumble of recording history, poetry, tall tales, and polemic captures the sound and vigor of a ruthlessly unsentimental music. Last Night's Fun is remarkable for its liveliness, honesty, scholarship, and spontaneous joy; certainly there has never been a book about Irish music like this one, and few books ever written about the experience of music can compare with it.